European-style farmer protests strike a chord
When calamity arises somewhere in the world, it’s natural to wonder if the same thing could happen here…and if it did, what would we do?
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Posted by Owen Roberts | Apr 3, 2024 | The Grower
When calamity arises somewhere in the world, it’s natural to wonder if the same thing could happen here…and if it did, what would we do?
Photo credit: The Grower
Posted by Owen Roberts | Apr 2, 2024 | Observer
Ontario is one of the least windy provinces in Canada, except for pockets around the Great Lakes…which is also where the country’s most dense population is found, along with some of its best farmland.
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Mar 23, 2024 | Prairie Farmer
The gap between food, agriculture and the public has widened, and a new University of Illinois entity plans to bring balanced information about ag and food to the table.
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Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Mar 20, 2024 | Observer
Think about your favourite ad. Is it fun and witty, or is it meant to inform? Probably it’s the former; some of the best comedy writers are ad writers.
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Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Mar 10, 2024 | Observer
It’s Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, an annual event designed to draw attention to some of the challenges facing the country’s 190,000 farms.
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.